April V), 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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 Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 



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EGGS 



apiary I use '.t frame, in the Mt. Zion apiary 

 10-frame, ami in the Concordia and the 

 Stokes apiaries the S-frame. If all is well I 

 will write again at the end of the season, 

 when I will tell which of the three sizes is 

 best for this locality, and how much honey 

 I secure from each apiary. 



I will give my report for 1893 and 1893 as 

 those are the only seasons that I workt all 

 the yard for houey only: In 189!i, from 9T 

 colonies I took 4,800 pounds of extracted 

 honey; in 1893, from the same yard of lia 

 colonies, 5,200 pounds of extracted. 



J. H. Sll'LE. 



Bolivar Co.. Miss., March 25. 



All Wintered Well. 



November 11. 1S99, I put 21 colonies into 

 the cellar, and on April 5 I took them out 

 in fine condition ; on the 7th they were car- 

 rying in pollen. I raised the hives up one 

 inch from the bottom in front. The pre- 

 vious year I did not raise them thus, and 

 lost 3 colonies, and had considerable mold. 

 This spring there was no mold. 



I consider the prospect for honey very 

 good. Clover can't be other than in good 

 condition, unless there is a drouth. 



There are not many bees kept around 

 me, and tho I am 70 years old I still like to 

 take care of the bees. F. Hall. 



Fillmore Co., Minn., April 9. 



Bee-Keeplng Experienee— Bee-Trees 



My bees are in good condition so far. We 

 have had a fair winter — not nearly so cold 

 as last winter, with very little snow, and 

 no sleighing. 



1 am 21 years old. I first kept bees in 

 August, 1890. I was herding a drove of 

 cattle, and while sitting in the shade of a 

 tree I beard a noise, and looking up I saw 

 bees flying in and out. The next day I went 

 to look at it again, and found the tree cut. 

 It was a basswood tree, and in a hollow I 

 found some bees and a little honey. I took 

 the bees home, and in about a month they 

 had stored a nice lot of honey. I took it 

 and let the poor bees starve. Of course I 

 didn't know any better, but thought it was 

 all right to rob them the same as I would a 

 bumble-bees' nest. 



In 1897 I caught a swarm about two miles 

 from home, and have kept bees ever since. 

 I find a great many bee-trees, and think 

 that it pays to hunt for them. All of them 

 have been well worth cutting, averaging 

 from 7.T to 100 pounds of honey. In 1S97 I 

 found five trees, in 1898 six. and in 1899 one. 

 B. F. Schmidt. 



Clayton Co., Iowa. March 7. 



Wintered in Good Condition. 



My bees are in pretty good condition so 

 far. I wintered some outdoors in chaff 

 hives of my own invention — a hive espe- 

 cially adapted to the Jumbo order; I use 13 

 Langstroth frames and contract in winter 

 with division-boards. E. M. Hates. 



Columbia Co., Wis., April 9. 



Honey-Dew and Its Qpigin. 



As the weather is very cold and my 80 

 colonies of bees are quiet, 1 will write what 

 I know about the origin of honey-dew in 

 western North Carolina. I have been ac- 

 quainted with it and its origin for 35 years, 

 and every time it has been produced by an 

 insect of some sort — sometimes a white 

 looking louse at first, then later it has 

 wings and flies away to some other tree 

 where it may lay another lot of eggs. Some 

 of these insects are white, some are dark, 

 and some are a reddish brown. They usu- 

 ally feed on the tender shoots and leaves 

 of the chestnut tree, but the oak and the 

 hickory are not exempt from these honey 

 distillers. They suck the saps from these 

 trees and convert it into sweet nectar, just 

 as the cow does her milk, then the little 

 honey-bee comes along and takes it into the 

 second "still" and carries it to her hive, 

 where she delivers it to one of her sisters 

 for further refinement. This honey-dew is 



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